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Tom R. Mincer, Ph.D. |
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Tom R. Mincer, Ph.D., Founder and President of SpreadsheetWorld,
Inc. (www.spreadsheetworld.com) and Professor of Mechanical
Engineering, California State University, Northridge (CSUN). Dr.
Mincer is widely recognized as an early pioneer in the extensive use
of Excel, VBA and FORTRAN DLLs in engineering. In 1985, he initiated
extensive use of Excel into the curriculum at CSUN by integrating it
into the courses on systems design, computational methods and
computer-aided-engineering. For the past 15 years he has worked
extensively in the areas of systems design, simulation and
optimization using the Excel Structured Spreadsheet environment. In
1995, he extended his efforts to industry by launching his popular
hands-on workshop on Spreadsheet Aided Engineering, which has now
been taught 210 times to engineers from over 100 companies
worldwide. Alumni from these workshops exceed 3,000 engineers. This
workshop is offered on a regular basis at over 50 companies. Dr.
Mincer founded SpreadsheetWorld to extend the training services to
include development of new and commercialization of existing
Excel/VBA Toolboxes, and services to enhance the implementation of
the best practices and methods taught in his workshops. |
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Laura Tyler Perryman |
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Laura Tyler Perryman received a M.S. degree in mechanical
engineering from California State University, Northridge in 2001
with a thesis emphasis on the simulation of the thyroid hormone
feedback control system. She received her M.B.A. from Pepperdine
University in 1990, and her B.S. in aeronautical engineering from
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in 1988. She is the founder and
director of Designer Concept Technologies, specializing in the
development and marketing of innovative products in the areas of
software and firmware optimization, secure wireless network
architectures, kinesiology equipment and pharmaceutics and is
currently pursuing a Ph.D. in bioengineering at Arizona State
University specializing in brain dynamic control. She has over 20
years of industry experience in engineering operations and
management utilizing optimization workflow strategies and expert
systems for high tech products with sales over to $1.2 Billion per
year.
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She was an R&D Systems Engineer at Rocketdyne, crafting functional
specifications for NASA and the Air Force programs that included
remote telemetry condition monitoring, real time engine simulation
and expert system fuel optimization. As a Systems Engineer at Walt
Disney Imagineering, she brought artistic visions into engineering
reality designing remote ride control systems with real time
parallel processing. She developed flight control maneuver
algorithms for the Boeing 777 and F-22 fly-by-wire systems with Lear
Astronics. She led the US deployment of wireless ICs for Seiko,
integrating wireless chipsets into designs for cellular phones,
medical instrumentation, inferred sensing devices, and PDAs. She was
Lead Project Manager for the 56kbps modem chipset at Rockwell
Semiconductors and primary Microsoft liaison for ITU adoption. As a
network consultant, she was a principal developer of an Oracle
based, Java front-end live-streaming media service and a worldwide
caching distributed replicator network to deploy live content on a
mass scale to wireless devices. She oversaw development of a
Broadvision/Oracle 8i customized content management and ecommerce
system managing over 10,000 transactions per day. As an
entrepreneur, she most recently designed and marketed pharmaceutical
and kinesiology solutions marketed direct to consumers grossing over
$130 Million in 3 years. She is an invited lecturer and panelist for
VentureNet, AIAA, IEEE and the AMA. |
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Matthew E. Moran |
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Matthew E Moran, PE is the owner of Isotherm Technologies LLC and a
Senior Engineer at NASA. He has 25 years of experience developing
products and systems for aerospace, electronics, military, and power
generation applications. He has been a founder or key collaborator
in five high-tech startup businesses, including Isotherm
Technologies that has been developing pioneering thermal
technologies since 1997. Recent projects include: thermal management
microsystems, high-powered lasers, fuel cell reactants,
super-insulation, solar dynamic cryocoolers, waste heat harvesting,
and thermal-powered wireless sensors & devices. Matt is a licensed
professional engineer with a Bachelor degree and graduate work in
mechanical engineering, and an MBA in systems management. He has
published 35 papers and articles; and has two patents, three patents
pending, and six invention disclosures. |
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Steven E. Squier |
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Steven E. Squier (M.S. Chemical Engineering),
Research Engineer, Hamilton Sundstrand Aerospace, initiated,
developed and continues to promote a computer-aided systems
engineering approach to analysis of aircraft subsystems, primarily
using Excel. His 21 years of aerospace industry experience at
Hamilton Sundstrand and Rockwell International have been focused on
the evaluation of vehicle-level system performance impacts due to
subsystem design variations. He holds several patents in diverse
areas of systems engineering and has experience in electric power,
environmental control, thermal analysis, hydraulics, pneumatics,
reliability, statistical and uncertainty analysis, neural networks
and life cycle costing. As part of the Advanced Systems group
within Hamilton Sundstrand, Steve has conceived and created several
custom engineering applications incorporating intuitive graphical
user interfaces all within the Microsoft Excel environment. He has
applied the concepts taught in this course to the evaluation of
advanced subsystem integration schemes for many commercial aircraft
platforms, most recently the Boeing 787 Dreamliner. Steve has
developed Excel/VBA applications not only for engineering analysis,
but also for technical data management, facility build and test
setup configuration documentation (combined with Microsoft Visio as
a graphical front end) and automated status reporting of
certification testing. Steve is also an Assistant Professor in the
Physical Science Department at Rock Valley College in Rockford, IL,
and as a Spreadsheet Aided Engineering course alumnus, has
frequently taught this course on-site at Hamilton Sundstrand. |
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